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Help in New Zealand
Hi @Richard and Mark, I am in NZ and in Auckland, would love to assist. If you need anymore background please feel free to contact me. You may have stumbled across me in any of the following forums, FB Holacracy Group, LinkedIn Holacracy Group, Reinventing Organisations Platform, GitHub Holacracy...
08/31/2015
Meeting Timeboxes
Hi @Max588, Well this is rather coincidental (or maybe not) a discussion recently was raised around the same sort of questions as you pose, in the LinkedIn group. Here is the linkhttps://www.linkedin.com/grp/p...=groups-post-b-title Hopefully this sting will provide some clarity. The answer to y...
09/01/2015
Strategy Meeting
Hi Sibylle, HolacracyOne has a published Policy within their records called "Strategy Meeting Process" this is supported through a Policy set in the Board Circle granting authority. I have included the link to it, it is good reference as it accommodates the role of the Lead-link elegantly as per...
09/02/2015
Meeting Timeboxes
Hi @MAx588, I have done some looking around, and found the following information that may be of benefit, remembering there are no hard and fast rules but it is a starting point. Many experts seem to agree and accept that the optimum length of a meeting is 45 minutes. We humans seem to focus best...
09/02/2015
Circles within Anchor Circle
I have a couple of clarifying questions. What is the purpose of the Anchor Circle (e.g. board)? Is the 2nd proposed circle part of the Company? What role perse in the Anchor Circle are you looking to expand into a 2nd Circle? The answers provide a bit more context to understand your specific situ...
10/11/2015
Referring to a lead link
Originally Posted by Koen Veltman:Hi Jean, Dien, thanks for replying. appreciate it a lot. I agree with that adding a general circle policy is a nice route to take. as it makes explicit how another role gets access to the resource allocation accountability of the Lead Link by default. eg its prev...
09/29/2015
How should I translate Holacracy?
Originally Posted by Davi Gabriel da Silva:Very strange question, I know. But I would like to understand the reason the prefix is hola instead of holo. It seems the word is derived from holarchy, not from holon. Am I right? I'm asking this question because I want to translate the word to Portugu...
10/28/2015
How should I translate Holacracy?
Incidentally if you look at the word origin of Holarchy (also known as Holoarchy) Hol-archy then you will realise that it has the same root 'Hol-' from Holon meaning an Autonomous self reliant unit, which in turn is derived from (gk) Holo- meaning whole (This is the concept on which the governanc...
10/28/2015
Circles within Anchor Circle
Originally Posted by Adrienne:Anchor Circle purpose is like a big-picture guidance type thing. Sort of where the company is going as a whole. The circle would be a part of the circle but only be able to be filled by members who are worker-owners. The role that would like to be expanded into a ci...
10/28/2015
HolacracyOne Purpose
Hi Brian, I recently had to go through a process to identify this for my own, and those I help. Maybe these pointers will help:PURPOSE (answers the question 'Why?') - THE REASON: guides everything.Collective Perspective:What impact does the organisation/system wish to have on society?What is the ...
10/27/2015
Circles within Anchor Circle
When I think of the Anatomy of an Organisation I always fall back on the Anatomy of a Human Being (complex organism): When you look at the Human Systems then you can sort of divide them in three groups: Structural Systems, Coordination Systems, and Containment System, the same is true of an Organ...
10/28/2015
"Global" Policies
Hi,Maybe this resource will help clarify it a little. http://wiki.holacracy.org/index.php?title=Policy One thing to remember is that a Policy enacted on say the Anchor Circle would by necessity apply to the General Company Circle as the GCC, in the scope of the Anchor Circle, is one of it's roles...
11/10/2015